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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

UK: Obama wins

The Guardian

President Obama wins four more years as America delivers decisive verdict

By Ewen MacAskill

Barack Obama promised the American people that the 'the best is yet to come" as he accepted a second term in the White House after easily beating off the challenge from his Republican rival, Mitt Romney.
With
a second chance to fulfil some of the expectations that greeted his
election in 2008, Obama used his soaring victory speech at a rally in
Chicago – by far his best of the entire campaign – to press for a
bipartisan approach to politics and returned once again to his theme of
hope.

Stepping up to the lectern to the upbeat strains of Stevie
Wonder's Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours, Obama told the ecstatic
crowd of supporters: "Tonight in this election, you, the American
people, reminded us that while our road has been hard, while our journey
has been long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way
back. And we know in our hearts that for the United States of America the best is yet to come."

In
a speech that lasted more than 25 minutes, after paying emotional
tribute to his wife Michelle and his daughters Malia and Sasha – as well
as to his vice-president, Joe Biden – Obama returned to the message
that first brought him to national attention.

"We are not as
divided as our politics suggests," he said. "We're not as cynical as the
pundits believe. We are greater than the sum of our individual
ambitions, and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue
states. We are, and forever will be, the United States of America."